Frequently Asked Questions

Wiblur is the founder and CKB (Chief Kibological Bozo) of the Wiblovian Institute of Kibology.

As to how he got his name, let us refer to his own account:

"My friends and I used play a lot of networked games on weekends, and I would often name my character 'Wilbur the Slayer'. One day I misspelled it as Wiblur, and I found that amusing, so decided to use it as my online moniker.

At that time, I used to read the newsgroup alt.slack a lot and wanted to come up with a fancy title for myself, much like all the popes, etc. in the Church of the Subgenius. I decided that go with 'Emperor Wiblur the Once' This was later shortened to just Wiblur The Once."

Kibology is pretty much what you want it to be. Our only tenet is: "You are allowed."

Some would probably say that "Bacon" and "No Pants" are important to Kibology, but there is no concensus on that. We, here at the institute often explain Kibology as "the sound of two birds with one stone.", but YMMV HTH, HAND.

We can only briefly touch on the meaning of Kibology. For further enlightenment, we recommend to go to the alt.religion.kibology newsgroup and ask them yourself.

It traces its origins to the early days of the internet, when James "Kibo" Parry would search the internet (which at the time was primarily newsgroups) for references to his name and would then then jump in and post a bunch of wacky stuff. He went on to become a net legend for his online hijinks.

In time, some members of a couple of newsgroups created one just for him (no doubt hoping that he would play there and leave them alone). over time, a great number of folks found that they got some good chuckles and their daily dose of wackiness out of hearing from Kibo and his pals. Now ARK (as it is known) has hundreds of regulars and lurkers.

ARK was created before we here at the institute started hanging out on the internet, so we're not positive how it got put in the religion heirarchy, but suspect that it came about because many of those who created the newsgroup were from the Church of the Subgenius, and they just do that kind of thing.